consultive

Updated: January 16, 2026

Then, too, Pierre had visited one of the consultive prelates, Monsignor Fornaro, who was so ambitious and affable, and so subtle a theologian that he would have discovered attacks against the faith in a treatise on algebra, had his interests required it.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

Then, too, Pierre had visited one of the consultive prelates, Monsignor Fornaro, who was so ambitious and affable, and so subtle a theologian that he would have discovered attacks against the faith in a treatise on algebra, had his interests required it.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4

Then, too, Pierre had visited one of the consultive prelates, Monsignor Fornaro, who was so ambitious and affable, and so subtle a theologian that he would have discovered attacks against the faith in a treatise on algebra, had his interests required it.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete